He also apparently watched a lot of SeaQuest DSV, and is trying to make it a reality. Hyperloop: SeaQuest. Electric cars: SeaQuest. Big car dashboard screens: SeaQuest. Magic Space Science: SeaQuest. CyberTruck…Apple Mouse ADB gen 1-ish wrapped in aluminum foil. I guess what I find most fascinating is that I have similar mental maladies to him, but I learned instead of just being perpetually dumb. It is actually disappointing that he chose to not learn and just ride the walrus instead. No idea why anyone worships him.

It’s easy, really. Base grid load tends to be slow to adjust, like nuclear could take days. Use that extra base load to run electrolysis when it isn’t being used. Grid usage is predictable enough that production would be pretty steady. It is already being stored successfully, and in some places there are even fueling stations for fuel cell cars like the Toyota Mirai.

The fuel is produced ostensibly “for free” and could also be reused in hydrogen turbine peaker plants nearby the nuclear facility when peak needs more peak. For double-free.

We have a new fuel source for a car type that already exists, that has faster refueling times and better range than electric alone, and the fuel cycle is zero carbon.

Fueling stations need to swap tanks, but they can all still exist, so we don’t break a section of the economy at the same time. (The cost to each fueling station would likely be a challenge, in the old days, a government subsidy for conversion would take care of that.)

Suddenly, we’re all on green energy and fossil fuels can suck it. Meanwhile, millions of cars are spewing water exhaust all over instead of pollution, helping with weather/drought cycles at scale.

–sent from an Al Gore Dream

wakes up

Oh shit, we’re in now Nazi America, never mind.

Google, and most of today’s tech bros designed their infrastructure to be wasteful and cloud-based. They very well could have designed it with a focus on decentralized equipment that does not need to be running all the time.

Beyond Google searches, just think how much power is wasted in the entire cloud compute pipeline these days, using a mobile device as an example:

• Power to run cell towers, that today consume thousands of watts of power even when idle, and in countries like the US where carriers do not colocate on the same physical hardware, 3x to 6x that.
• Power to run the data link to the cell towers,
• Power to run the infrastructure on the Internet to link that connection to whatever cloud service you use.
• Power to run the datacenter servers and cooling systems that handle your request.
• All of the above is turned on whether you are using it or not.
• Going on, power consumed on your consumption device.
• All the advertising, tracking, and telemetry-gathering that every program on your device, web browser, web sites, services, and operating system perform, eating your battery faster and causing you to have to use more power to recharge more frequently, which also limits the life of your non-removable battery in your compute device.
• All the bandwidth and power consumed with apps being set to auto update, and developers following CI/CD models “because it’s hip” but really because it’s a great way to reset and manipulate reviews on app stores, so apps are pointlessly updated almost daily despite having no significant changes, and your flash is worn, your battery is consumed, more power is consumed across the entire stack, every time this happens.
• In the reverse, apps don’t take advantage of I’ll call it “predatory” caching (even though this would also lead to flash wear) to do something like, “they’re watching episode 1 of a show, whenever I use Internet bandwidth, I’ll also download the next three episodes at the same time to minimize collective power use.” Doing so will use *some *more power, but overall if designed “smart” enough, it would effectively reduce power and bandwidth consumption at inopportune times.
• Oh, and for all this infrastructure, the energy consumed maintaining, repairing, and upgrading this entire stack by humans, electricity, water, and fuel.
• Probably other stuff I forgot.

NYT has been trash for a while, sadly, thanks for the alternate link.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-disable-windows-thumbs-db-files-from-being-created this kills that.

.Trash-999 was already taken by a metal band.

Metadata that’s a holdover from the 1980s MacOS behavior. Hilariously, today, NTFS supports that metadata better than Apple’s own filesystems of today. They can hide it in Alternate Data Streams.

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

Helps a bit.